Narrated `Ikrima: Ibn `Abbas said, Preach to the people once a week, and if you won't, then preach them twice, but if you want to preach more, then let it be three times (a week only), and do not make the people fed-up with this Qur'an. If you come to some people who are engaged in a talk, don't start interrupting their talk by preaching, lest you should cause them to be bored. You should rather keep quiet, and if they ask you, then preach to them at the time when they are eager to hear what you say. And avoid the use of rhymed prose in invocation for I noticed that Allah's Apostle and his companions always avoided it.
Read More..Narrated Anas: Allah's Apostle said, When anyone of you appeal to Allah for something, he should ask with determination and should not say, 'O Allah, if You wish, give me.', for nobody can force Allah to do something against His Will.
Read More..Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, None of you should say: 'O Allah, forgive me if You wish; O Allah, be merciful to me if You wish,' but he should always appeal to Allah with determination, for nobody can force Allah to do something against His Will.
Read More..Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, The invocation of anyone of you is granted (by Allah) if he does not show impatience (by saying, I invoked Allah but my request has not been granted. )
Read More..Narrated Anas, The Prophet (saws) raised his hands (in invocation) till I saw the whiteness of his armpits.
Read More..Narrated Anas: While the Prophet was delivering a sermon on a Friday, a man stood up and said, O Allah's Apostle! Invoke Allah to bless us with rain. (The Prophet invoked Allah for rain.) So, the sky became overcast and it started raining till one could hardly reach one's home. It kept on raining till the next Friday when the same man or another man got up and said (to the Prophet), Invoke Allah to withhold the rain from us, for we have been drowned (with heavy rain ). The Prophet said, O Allah! Let it rain around us and not on us. Then the clouds started dispersing around Medina and rain ceased to fall on the people of Medina.
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